Mayan EDMS

Electronic document management system for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features.

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Still maintained? Yes: 3 commits in the last 90 days.

Also an alternative to Paperless Cloud and SharePoint.

Docker #15 of 17 in Document Management

At a glance

Mayan EDMS quick facts

Health score: 35/100 STALE
Stars: 682
Last commit: 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
Latest release: No tagged release
Licence: GPL-2.0

View gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms on GitLab ↗ Website ↗

Top alternatives to Mayan EDMS

Full rankings: Paperless Cloud alternatives, SharePoint alternatives

Why it ranks here

Health score explained

Mayan EDMS scores 35/100, #15 of 17 in Document Management: 3 commits in the last 90 days earn 3.5 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 682 stars add 11.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 31.5 more points.

Recomputed nightly from the GitLab API. How the score is calculated.

Commit activity biggest shortfall 3.5 / 35

3 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
Release recency 0.0 / 25

No tagged release found
Stars 11.3 / 20

682 stars on GitLab (logarithmic)
Not archived 10.0 / 10

Repository is active
Docker support 10.0 / 10

Docker image or Compose file available

Commit activity

3
Last 90 days: 66
Last 12 months: 1 month ago
Last push

Ranked #15 of 17 tools in Document Management by health , between I, Librarian (#14) and EveryDocs (#16) .

Details

Licence	GPL-2.0
Platforms	Docker, K8S
Latest release	No tagged release
Stars	682
Docker	Yes
Repository	gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms ↗

Visit website ↗ Source code ↗

Mayan EDMS vs its top 5 alternatives

Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Mayan EDMS (Document Management), scored on the same five terms.

Tool	Health	Stars	Licence	Last commit
Paperless-ngx	99	47k	GPL-3.0	today
Papra	95	5.6k	AGPL-3.0	yesterday
Papermerge	79	550	Apache-2.0	yesterday
Docspell	67	2.3k	GPL-3.0	3 days ago
Mayan EDMS (this tool)	35	682	GPL-2.0	1 month ago
EveryDocs	33	428	GPL-3.0	3 months ago

Mayan EDMS: common questions

What does Mayan EDMS replace?

Repoly lists Mayan EDMS as an open-source alternative to Paperless Cloud and SharePoint. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Mayan EDMS stands against the others.

Is Mayan EDMS still maintained?

Mayan EDMS had 3 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.

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